Read Our White Paper on Raising Preferred Equity
Are you working on a profitable real estate investment or development and need to raise additional capital? NetLeaseX Capital can help. We work with real estate investors and developers (the “Sponsors”) to raise preferred equity from “below the radar” high net worth investors, family offices, registered investment advisors, equity funds, and institutional investors—so that you can enhance your project’s leverage and successfully close your deals.
Our investors are interested in working with non-institutional sponsors and even new sponsors who lack substantial capital resources of their own.
In our white paper, you’ll learn:
- How preferred equity fits into the capital stack
- Ways to structure preferred equity investments
- How sponsors can benefit from working with NetLeaseX Capital
- Why family offices and high net worth investors prefer this approach
To learn more, download our white paper and listen to our 39-minute podcast discussion below. If you have questions or would like to discuss a potential financing, contact Ron Zimmerman at (513) 621-1031, fill out the form on this page, or email ronz@netleasex.com.
For more insights on rescue financing and preferred equity, read our articles published on FamCap.com, a website for high net worth and family office investors, and in the Scotsman Guide, a leading industry publication for commercial lenders and mortgage brokers. You can also download our white paper for an overview of NetLeaseX Capital’s services and expertise and learn how these strategies can help you navigate today’s challenging market conditions and protect your investments.
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Using Preferred Equity to Increase Real Estate Investors’ Leverage and Enhance Returns
Original: September 2022 | Updated: September 2025
🎧 Listen to 39-minute podcast discussion
This whitepaper discusses how NetLeaseX works with real estate investors to structure investment relationships with “below the radar” high net worth investors, family offices, registered investment advisors, equity funds, and institutional investors to help sponsors — including non-institutional sponsors and even first-time sponsors — raise preferred equity so that they can close more deals and earn more fees.
Articles by Ron Zimmerman
Strategize With Preferred Equity
The Scotsman Guide | December 2018 (Featured Article)
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This article gives an overview on how real estate investors can increase leverage by raising preferred equity to fill the gap between the amount an investor can raise in senior debt financing and the sponsor’s equity investment. This article further discusses various ways preferred equity investments can be structured including, for example, creating one or more tiers, waterfall priority order (e.g. A/B structure vs. pari passu), recourse, repayment schedules, control rights, and capital shortfall requirements.
The Power of Stretch Loans for Family Office Investors
Famcap.com | May 2024
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This article explores how commercial real estate investors can secure custom stretch loans from high net worth and family office investors, combining senior debt and preferred equity features to obtain high-leverage, short-term bridge financing with favorable pay rates.
NetLeaseX Capital Offers Family Offices Direct Access to Rescue Financing Investments in Real Estate
Famcap.com | October 2023
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This article discusses how family offices and other sophisticated real estate investors can access NetLeaseX’s platform to freely review NetLeaseX’s pre-screened, "investment-ready" transactions, including rescue financing, preferred equity and co-GP investment opportunities. The article further discusses why NetLeaseX believes that a better way to invest in commercial real estate in today's market is to provide rescue financing to sponsors, particularly in multifamily.
Throw Out A Lifeline
The Scotsman Guide | July 2020 (Featured Article)
This article discusses how real estate investors may be able to raise rescue financing to cover operating losses and/or mortgage payments during the Covid-19 crisis. Raising rescue financing is especially important for real estate investors who may face substantial liability due to personal loan guarantys if their lender were to foreclose; thus, triggering a forced sale at a fire-sale price.
Ride To The Rescue
The Scotsman Guide | August 2020
As a follow-on article to “Throw Out A Lifeline”, this article discusses how rescue financing, in effect, works like bridge equity, a temporary infusion of cash from an investor that well eventually be bought out via refinancing or sale when real estate markets normalize. This article further lists various ways how rescue financing can be structured both as debt and equity investments.